On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:53:37PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Lan Barnes wrote: > > Also, the lack of true tags/labels is a chronic gripe for me with svn. The > > developers insist that their hokey use of the copy facility to make > > instances that, they say, can stand as labeled versions, is all anyone > > needs. But this is the exact same rhetoric we heard from the cvs > > developers when the svn people were criticising their refusal to address > > certain cvs deficiencies. > > What do you see as the real difference between tags/labels and a copy? I > tend to like the svn way (having never really used the CVS tags, so I'm > curious as to their advantages) because it is consistent with how > everything else works and is not a special case in the system like CVS > tags. Everything is a tree and if you want to set aside some chunk of
in my head, labels (i.e., cvs tags) support horizontal organization, while svn tags are hierarchical/vertical. labels offer much more freedom but at a cost (at least to me) of no meta organization. by that i mean the ability to easily cluster labels. its great to be able to attach labels to everything, not so great to have a sea of labels wo any kind of structure to them. for me, marking a release in cvs always brought with it a sense of, "wow that is cool these markers that tell me which versions of which files in this project go with that release" followed closely by, "man i hope this works the way i think it does". with svn my reaction has been the opposite. "what do you mean i simply create a new directory and copy the files in there to mark/tag that release? isn't that kind of inefficient?!". followed not so closely by, "well, yeah of course putting all the files for a snapshot in one directory makes sense". i've come to think which one (svn vs cvs) you prefer comes down to which one best aligns with the way your mind likes to impose structure on the world. -- Serge Rey http://regal.sdsu.edu/~serge A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
